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Message-ID: <49259D29.3070308@candelatech.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 09:23:53 -0800
From: Ben Greear <greearb@...delatech.com>
To: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
CC: rick.jones2@...com, netdev@...r.kernel.org, kaber@...sh.net
Subject: Re: ARP table question
David Miller wrote:
>> After some more testing, I can still get it into a bad
>> state if I have a retrans timer of 1 sec and a randomness of 5 secs
>> and manage to cause all 1000 arp entries to go stale at once (by
>> yanking a cable, for instance).
>>
>> It seems I have to bump up the base timer to 3-5 seconds (I'm
>> leaving the random backoff at 5 secs as well).
>
> This scheme still seems hackish to me, so I'm going to defer on this
> for now.
You think something like an exponential backoff capped at some user-configurable
max-value would be better?
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Ben Greear <greearb@...delatech.com>
Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com
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